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Squid Game 2x07 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Before getting into the meat of the finale, let us speak of the captain first. I confess that sometime after I saw the sixth episode, and prior to seeing either the finale or your reaction to the sixth episode, I inadvertently came across something. Might have been a thumbnail on youtube, or a picture of a headline of an article that you occasionally come across. I misremember, but the image was of the captain. And given how comparatively small potatoes the character seemed, that was a big red flag, and I noted, “Seems like Jess was dead on the money on this one.” When you talked about the captain in the last reaction, I therefore tried not to say too much about that for fear I would spoil. Though given you filmed the reactions back-to-back, it ended up a premature concern, but better safe than sorry. Before that, you mentioned the idea, and I kept noting that it wouldn’t be impossible. I got half-spoiled, then, but it was ok in that they don’t treat it like the biggest shock in the world. You see him with the drone, I just went, “So, yeah, he is crooked.” whereas you had the fantastic look on your face. And his stabbing that confirms plays out in a relatively banal manner. It also addresses the improbable nature of how he found Jun-ho, which initially you half write that off as narrative convenience to allow the plotline. The bathroom brawl continued to be a sight. Hell of a thing when we see for sure the death of the rapper, and how his wingman swipes the Infinity drugs and the Infinity fork. Gi-hun and his team planned well around the special game, shitty though it’s stuck being to have to lose certain players, like Se-mi, her death was hard to watch. Gi-hun and his team made one hell of a Hail Mary. And he shows commitment to his vendetta being against those running the games, not the other players. Hence why he is against an attack against them. Again, if the x side was relying on the forks, what they really need is Hank Azaria on their side. Loved your love for Hyun-ju throughout this episode. That lady put in the WORK, and we live. You say she is the mvp/favorite of the season. She is about even to Yong-sik for second favorite of the season, behind Geum-ja, who is tying with Mi-nyeo for being my favorite of this whole show. Loved how Yong-sik was wanting to fight, only refraining because his mom stops him. And even then, he still helps. I know what you mean of you want to be more hopeful than you are. There is copious Hitchcockian suspense of knowing that the horrible things will happen, you’re just forced to wait to see the exact manner as to how that will play out. Made more prominent as we know of the ticking bomb under the table that is In-ho being a two-faced son of a bitch. You note that you weren’t terribly articulate expressing frustration with him. True, the groans of pure frustration aren’t exactly articulate. The sheer anger and emotion, however, that you pack into said groans does convey as much as Chayefsky level of loquacity. Seriously, you packed in the Alan Rickman energy into how much you were averse to In-ho’s fuckery. The whole thing was something to behold. Similar response to the music. I made the note, “You usually don’t hear such prominent brass in the score for this. Not that I’m complaining, mind you.” Speaking of the music, I realized too that they were a bit light this season with the dies iræ, dies illa sounding ditty that the pink soldiers have. I knew that you would have the compassion that you had toward Dae-ho, and that you would not condemn. I expected that you would refrain from throwing stones on that one. It seems like he either was never in combat, or that he has some untreated trauma. His body language suggests the latter, and compounded by, how you observed about the pressure placed upon him. Given past statements and comments you made, I knew, Jess, that the topic would be personal. Out of respect for the privacy of those you alluded to, I won’t attempt to improve on any of what you said. The rebellion fails, and it got me when Geum-ja stops Hyun-ju from getting killed, though I did love your encouragement of her. You speak well of the dad how we focused on him less than you would have thought, yet he had a strong showing in the season. He proved a mensch during the mingle game, and he too was most impressive in this finale. You query was No-eul the one who shot him. The idea is a popular one, yes, though we play a waiting game to ascertain for certain. It is disheartening when In-ho rubs it in how Gi-hun did not succeed. He even sports his Doctor Doom finery again, which just makes you ask, “How the hell did he change his clothes so fast?” You wonder would he go back in the game. More likely he will say that “Player 001” died, when, in actuality, reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. He would not be the first Player 001 to do so. Sad to lose Jung-bae, both Gi-hun and your reactions to that got me good. STILL In-ho is not killing Gi-hun. I suspect that will backfire somehow as it still allows Gi-hun some sort of opportunity to fight again once the fire is lit. There is also the matter of how Gi-hun is pinned down in a manner similar to a man who well understands blood for blood. Hopefully, Gi-hun will draw a similar strength from that man, take the fuckers down. And with In-ho, save him to the last, so that before he dies. He. Will know. Gi-hun. Buried. Every one of them. Then again, we could be headed toward absurdly nihilistic tragedy, which doesn’t seem ENTIRELY likely as it would be too bleak and it would kill any desires for rewatches/newcomers in the future. Meantime, we have to wait for season three. I heard a prospective date for the season’s premiere. I can’t confirm it. The report I heard suggested the latter part of June. If the date I heard is correct, then it’s VERY mean, as now my anxiety and dread for Geum-ja increases significantly, and I’m snapping at the showrunners and Netflix, “It’s my mom’s birthday that day! Ok!? So, if that is when the season premieres, please, feel free not to hold it against me for not watching any of the season that day! All right!?” Then there is how you expressed love for the love you received for these reactions. It warms the heart to hear how you appreciated how the fans of this show embraced your perfect style of reacting. You mention how you placed greater value on that over the numbers. The numbers wouldn’t hurt. But yes, it’s lovely to hear that the love and support means so much to you, Jess. You made me cry at the end when you thanked us for that. You are most welcome for the love given to you, and I await sharing the next season with you. Until then, thank you for the fantastic reaction, Jess.

Ryan

I got a lot more good than bad out of this season, certainly more than I expected after the shaky start I had with it. And after seeing the finale, I can only say...it was good while it lasted. The only time I can remember being this emotionally disengaged from the big action climax of a story I'd been enjoying is the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, with its interminable ten minute police shootout after the main tension has already been resolved. But before we get to that, we get some more of everyone's favorite storyline on the boat, this time with the big shocking twist that no one saw coming except everyone. For the sake of my own sanity, I'm just going to assume Jun-ho has some huge role to play in Season 3 that meant he couldn't just be left dead, but boy did they not come up with a decent bridge to that, and every time we cut back to this story I had the exact same reaction as you when Metatron shows up. As for the actual reason we're here, the first half actually does okay for itself, especially Min-su's pitiful failure to redeem himself which I'm more curious than anything else here at where it's going next season. I just wish we could have ever gotten some solid information about Se-mi so I could feel something at losing her. Just look at Young-mi to see how little it takes. And the initial scenes of the rebellion are genuinely thrilling, including Hyun-ju showing what a dumb idea kicking her out of the army was. It's just a shame the momentum stops dead as soon as they leave that room. The major issue here has been unavoidable ever since we saw Player 001's face: even without the foreknowledge that there's a whole other season coming, we know the whole time that In-ho is going to screw them over at some point, so it's impossible to get invested in the possibility of success. And in the meantime, we just have a solid half hour of extremely repetitive action that mostly involves people we don't know, while most of the people we do care about are just cooling their heels back at home base. It's especially mystifying that we get nothing from No-eul through the whole thing; how hard would it have been to show her uniform getting some signifier like the blood handprint from Force Awakens? And then the show completely skips out on the big expected moment of In-ho revealing himself to totally crush Gi-hun's spirit, and I can't imagine however it goes down in Season 3 is worth the extra buildup. At least we still have you getting to your usual investment level, and with Season 3 able to have a proper ending, I do have a good amount of faith that Hwang will be able to pull it back together and give us something deserving of the love the show has.

Ryan
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I'll be honest, I totally forgot the girl's dad was part of this for most of the season, and didn't recognize him at all during the ending. That would certainly help explain No-eul's weird absence from the whole episode.

Thomas Corp
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I quite love the ‘34 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, especially for Peter Lorre. The shootout there does drag, though it does kind of work if you look at it with Hitchcock’s sense of humor. The shootout here, given we already know that there will be a season three, it kind of falls under the “Timmy’s still trapped in the cave” type of scenario of you know that the uprising won’t be successful, so you just see how it plays out. The twist with the captain, like I said, I was just happy the show didn’t make the biggest thing out of it. I do freely concede that Jun-ho’s scenes have the strong twiddling of the thumbs energy, and it does feel padded until the (presumably) payoff in season three. It DOES really get bad here when he never gets even one second of screen time in this finale. Certainly, I’m not begrudging you the Metatron style response that Jess has when we cut to those scenes. Min-su did exhibit pitiful failure. Curious how that plotline progresses. Good to see you like the initial rebellion. Shared assessment on the one grievous error of judgment, vis-à-vis Hyun-ju. The army could definitely use lots of gals like that. Going back to Hitchcock, I saw the thing of since you know In-ho is who he is, you’re waiting for the bomb to stop ticking, combined with my own thing of though you know what is likely to happen, how is a separate thought. But yes, the ability to get invested in the possibility of success was removed. That and I thought how the One Way Out episode of Andor came to mind, and that was too damn good that this falls in that shadow. The people we do care about are just cooling their heels back at home base, yeah, well, I was kind of happy about that, especially in Geum-ja and Yong-sik’s case, though there remains the dread that they’ll both die terribly in the third season. One thing I am holding onto is that we didn’t get any payoff with Chekov’s hairpin shiv that Geum-ja has. Sort of hoping that if they are set on her being marked to die, we get the payoff with that in some fashion. And that she at least gets a badass exit like Mi-nyeo did last season. That will soften the blow. I wonder if they were counting on No-eul’s height being the signifier rather than a bloody handprint, or a cut sleeve like in the training scene in Batman Begins. In-ho did get back to his Doctor Doom look, which is really telling me he’s not done with the long game, and that he’s still not going to kill Gi-hun just yet. I’m calling it that by doing this, he’s guaranteeing his death or defeat. One thought I have is that he’s not planning to unmask himself, and he’ll end up slipping and mentioning something that allows Gi-hun to put two and two together. How he plans to proceed with his O’Brien putting Winston through the torture, up to and including Room 101 shtick, that I don’t know. He’s also banking on the fact that now the o faction will win the new vote, which they probably will. Supposing they don’t win the vote, curious how In-ho would process that. Assuming the vote isn’t just rescinded altogether in light of the uprising, and the games continue. Come what may, let’s see how it goes. And if nothing else, like you said, Jess is at her usual investment level, which is more than enough for me to see this thing through till the end. Do hope that they don’t have a finale worse than the one for Roseanne, in any event.